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  • Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

    Edited by Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically new worldview has significantly altered the socio-political as well as literary perception of one of the ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age

    Exploring the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont ...
    This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.It closely interrogates the political and cultural shifts that have accompanied the transition to a nuclearised world. Beginning with the contemporary socio-political and ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga

    The Visual Literacy Of Statecraft

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions. Highly illustrated chapters presented here investigate the multifaceted relationship between Japan’s political storytelling practices, media and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War

    The Yakeato Generation

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of these groups have been discussed in a large corpus of what we may call ‘disenfranchised literature’, and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • Neurotic Beauty

    An Outsider Looks at Japan

    by Morris Berman ...
    Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential role of Japanese philosophy in creating a dynamicapproach to human nature and our understanding of reality. The book also shows theinterrelatedness of various facets of Japanese history and society, ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Japan's Contested War Memories

    The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II

    by Philip A. Seaton ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, and ends with the sixtieth anniversary commemorations.Analyzing the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo

    Power Struggles

    by Alexander Brown ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Dream Super-Express

    A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train

    by Jessamyn Abel ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen—the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"—represents the bold aspirations of a nation rebranding itself after military defeat, but also the deep problems caused by the unbridled postwar drive for economic growth. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Fukushima and the Arts

    Negotiating Nuclear Disaster

    Edited by Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Hiroshima Traces

    Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory

    by Lisa Yoneyama ...
    Series Book 10 - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
    Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories—including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Nagasaki

    Life After Nuclear War

    by Susan Southard ...
    “[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal**“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and ... Read more

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